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Jason Schwartzman, Eric Roberts and Eric Andre join The Righteous Gemstones Season 2

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The second season of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones has added Jason Schwartzman (Fargo), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) and Eric Andre (Bad Trip) to its cast. The Righteous Gemstones is the third HBO series from McBride, Hill and Green after Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, and revolves around the Gemstones, a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, […]

First look images from Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon

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HBO has released the first images from the Games of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon which offer a look at Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen, Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon – ‘The Sea Snake’, Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, and Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower; […]

Alexander Skarsgård joins season 3 of Succession

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HBO has announced Alexander Skarsgård (Godzilla vs. Kong) has been cast in the upcoming third season of the hit series Succession. Skarsgård will star as Lukas Matsson, “a successful, confrontational tech founder and CEO.” He joins Hope Davis (Your Honor) in the series, who was recently cast as the daughter to one of Logan Roy’s longtime […]

Lena Headey joins HBO Watergate drama The White House Plumbers

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Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey is the latest to join HBO’s upcoming Watergate miniseries The White House Plumbers, which follows the infamous political scandal that Richard Nixon’s presidency. She join Woody Harrelson (Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Justin Theroux (On The Basis of Sex) and Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) in the series. […]

HBO adds Domhnall Gleeson to Watergate series The White House Plumbers

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Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) is set to star in HBO’s upcoming political series The White House Plumbers that covers the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, according to Deadline. He joins Woody Harrelson (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) and Justin Theroux (On The Basis of Sex) in the series. The […]

Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott star in trailer for HBO’s Oslo

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HBO has released the first trailer for the political drama Oslo. Based on the true story of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, and adapted from the Tony Award-winning play of the same name, the film is directed by Bartlett Sher and stars Ruth Wilson as Norwegian foreign minister Mona Juul and Andrew Scott as Mona’s […]

Fire will reign as Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon begins production

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A new era in the world of Game of Thrones has officially begun as HBO has confirmed that the upcoming GOT prequel series House of the Dragon has started its production. House of the Dragon will follow the story of the Targaryen family in Westeros, set 300 years before the events in the Game of […]

HBO’s The Last of Us series taps Jasmila Žbanić and Ali Abbasi to direct

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With HBO and PlayStation Production set to begin filming their television adaptation of the hit PlayStation video game The Last of Us in July, the series has added two additional directors. According to Variety, directors Jasmila Žbanić and Ali Abbasi have both been tapped to helm episodes of The Last of Us while the previously announced Kantemir Balagov […]

Parasite HBO series is an original story in the film’s universe and not a remake, confirms writer Adam McKay

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Shortly after making history at the Oscars after winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film, it was announced that director Bong Joon Ho was teaming up with writer Adam McKay and HBO for a television series adaptation. Now, during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider), […]